Spelling fixes (mass change)

[timeless]

I'm releasing the files I'll attach here under the MIT license.

The original file-list was limited to files in the src/ directory. I removed various files from that list that people identified as belonging to/originating from third parties.

VirtualBox's source structure:

• src/ - the list of bad words was built from here
• include/ - corrections were also applied here
• tools/ - this was intentionally ignored
• debian/ - this was skipped
• doc/ - this was skipped (unfortunately)

Tools

• build-word-list.pl - generate word-list from files in file-list
• aspell list < word-list > bad-list - generates bad-list using aspell (run on OS X 10.6.4)
• vi - not included; used to delete large swaths of obviously uninteresting strings from bad-list
• search-file-list.pl - used while manually pruning bad-list
• tabify-bad-list.pl - used for initial conversion from bad-list to replacement-instructions
• process-word-and-file-list.pl - used to apply original-replacement-instructions.txt

Files

• word-list - not included but available, it's 640k compressed (1.7mb originally)
• bad-list - I don't have a canonical version of this, as I was pruning file-list, it should be roughly 92% of word-list
• files-to-munge.txt - this is the final file-list, effectively only files in this list should be patched and could contributed to misspellings
• original-replacement-instructions.txt - this is roughly the actions taken by process-word-and-file-list.pl to produce the patches + series
• series - ordered list of patches to apply. The series starts with a couple of items which I believe affect the user experience, followed by an alphabetically sorted set of patches.
• patchfile - the header indicates which replacements it should contain. Not all patches are independent, a number of them depend on other files earlier in series.
• connectix - The reason there's an uneven number of insertions/deletions is that "conectix" was apparently intentionally misspelled by Connectix as part of its file header. You could of course omit this change (or generally speaking any others).

The end result of this is:

991 files changed, 3834 insertions(+), 3833 deletions(-)

in 742 patches.

A straight diff -U0 of the changes (folded together) is 13959 lines and 1009876 bytes. I can provide this flat version too, however I can't imagine it'd be remotely useful for anyone.

One odd thing I came across while patching things was STRINGFY() which is used in Etherboot, it's clearly a VirtualBox specific change, but I can't actually find a definition for it anywhere. I won't be including it in this attachment as I've segregated the etherboot patches.

Oh, I'm working from an svn pull (well, an hg convert thereof) from:

|  date:        Tue Oct 19 00:16:34 2010 +0000
|  summary:     wddm/3d: cromium hgsmi fixes

[timeless]

spelling tools - MIT license

[timeless]

vbox patches _, a-n

[timeless]

vbox patches o-z, series file

[timeless]

folded patches - MIT license

[timeless]

Attachment 7640.zip has a folded set of patches:

• _ui-changes - UI visible replacements (including changes to the UI, command line args/parsing, and environment variable handling)
• _comments - Comment changes
• _logging - Changes that affect logging
• _function-changes - Changes to functions and other identifiers

[Frank Mehnert]

Part 1 (comments) applied, the remaining parts will follow.

Many thanks for your contribution!

[aeichner]

Please reopen if still relevant with a recent VirtualBox release.